Civilisation's main coordination bottleneck is knowledge, not incentive: players plan in ignorance of each other's plans, and institutions (prices, contracts, postal services, software interfaces) work by letting local knowledge be composed across a boundary without being shared.

Evidence 3 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  One constraint on Civilization's intelligence is that each of its players plans mostly in ignorance

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Rather than incentivization alone, a main bottleneck for civilization is coordination around limitations of knowledge.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  In both cases, the bottleneck is not conflict of interest, but the locality of knowledge.

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